# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（役員） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十一条（役員） — (Officers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21 **第一項** 健康保険組合に、役員として理事及び監事を置く。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21/par-1 A health insurance society has directors and auditors as its officers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 理事の定数は、偶数とし、その半数は設立事業所の事業主の選定した組合会議員において、他の半数は被保険者である組合員の互選した組合会議員において、それぞれ互選する。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21/par-2 The fixed number of directors is an even number; half of them are elected by votes cast by society meeting members selected by the employer of the establishment, and the other half are elected by votes cast by the society meeting members elected by vote from among society members who are insured persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 理事のうち一人を理事長とし、設立事業所の事業主の選定した組合会議員である理事のうちから、理事が選挙する。 art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21/par-3 The president is elected by the directors from among the directors who are society meeting members selected by the employer of the establishment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 監事は、組合会において、設立事業所の事業主の選定した組合会議員及び被保険者である組合員の互選した組合会議員のうちから、それぞれ一人を選挙する。 art-21/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21/par-4 At a society meeting, one auditor is elected by votes from among the society meeting members selected by the employers of the establishment, and the other auditor is elected from among society meeting members elected by vote from among society members who are insured persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 監事は、理事又は健康保険組合の職員と兼ねることができない。 art-21/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-21/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-21/par-5 An auditor may not act concurrently as a director or official of a health insurance society. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-3591-77/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10